# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-heard
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:34:49.743Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-heard"
name: "John Heard"
slug: "john-heard"
description: "John Matthew Heard Jr. was an American actor. He made his debut appearance in film with the ensemble Between the Lines (1977). He appeared in a number of successful films, including Heart Beat (1980), Cutter's Way (1981), Cat People (1982), After Hours (1985), Beaches (1988), Deceived (1991), and as Peter McCalister in Home Alone (1990) and its sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992). He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1999 for his recurring role as corrupt police detective Vin Makazian on The Sopranos (1999–2004)."
tagline: "American actor (1946–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JohnHeardActor2010.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1946-03-07"
deathDate: "2017-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           64.7
  momentum:             19.43137058548635
  historical:           28.49229066666667
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001334/"
    handle:    "nm0001334"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Heard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Heard (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Heard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Heard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جان هرد (هنرپیشه)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Heard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heard"
    title: "John Heard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heard"
    title: "John Heard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heard_(sz%C3%ADnm%C5%B1v%C3%A9sz)"
    title: "John Heard (színművész)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Heard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heard"
    title: "John Heard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89"
    title: "ジョン・ハード"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B4_%ED%97%88%EB%93%9C"
    title: "존 허드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heard"
    title: "John Heard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%BEons_H%C4%93rds"
    title: "Džons Hērds"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heard_(Schauspeler)"
    title: "John Heard (Schauspeler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462327"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11512"
    title: "John Heard"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump